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Hire Blockchain Developers_

Last updated: 2026-08-12

At a glance

Hiring blockchain developers usually means choosing between a marketplace of résumés and an agency that rents out seats. RedDuck is the third option: a Web3 engineering team, founded in 2020, that takes ownership of your protocol — architecture, code, testing, audit preparation, and mainnet deployment — on a dedicated-team or project basis. The numbers are company facts, not claims: 100+ deliveries shipped to mainnet, 150+ clients served, 20+ external audits passed with Hacken and Sherlock, and 0 post-release critical vulnerabilities. Pick the specialization below, or start from the engagement model.

Engagement models

Dedicated team

A stable engineering team assembled from the bench — contract engineers, backend, QA, DevOps — that works as your protocol department over months, with composition flexing as the roadmap moves.

Best for: Products with a living roadmap: protocols, platforms, and token economies that keep generating engineering work.

Project-based

A scoped engagement with a defined deliverable, taken from architecture review through development, testing, and external audit to a full-authority handover.

Best for: A defined build with a hard scope — and teams that want to evaluate the working relationship before committing.

The bench behind your team

10EVM / Solidity
10Solana / Rust
5Hedera / Hashgraph
5Zero-Knowledge
15TypeScript
100+Shipped to mainnet
150+Clients served
20+Audits passed
0Post-release criticals
$1M+Total earned (all time)

Stack counts overlap — the same engineers ship on more than one stack. These are company-wide facts, not the size of a single project team: your team is assembled from this bench to match the scope.

Work we own

The portfolio spans the specializations this cluster hires for: EVM contract systems with compliance enforced at the transfer level, original Anchor programs with the off-chain services that keep them alive, multi-chain wallet infrastructure, and a proposed Ethereum standard. Every entry is named on the cases pages — no logo walls, no anonymized “fintech client”.

RWA Tokenization

Core contracts behind a live tokenized-treasury issuer — NAV-priced vaults with sanctions screening gating every transfer.

Solidity · Hardhat · OpenZeppelin upgradeable

Solana Index-Token Protocol

Original Anchor programs — index token, staking with DAO governance — plus a monorepo of keeper and indexer services.

Rust/Anchor · Raydium SDK · NestJS

OpenWallet

A non-custodial multi-chain wallet: one seed across EVM, Solana, and Bitcoin, with keys that never leave the background worker.

TypeScript · viem · @solana/web3.js

Perpetual DEX

Perps on Arbitrum with the production system around them: liquidators, keepers, subgraphs, and an end-to-end suite.

Solidity · The Graph · NestJS

Ownership, not staff augmentation

Staff augmentation optimizes for billable seats; ownership optimizes for a system that survives an audit and a mainnet launch. When you hire through this page, RedDuck owns architecture decisions and their consequences: the team says no to designs that should not ship, writes code to a 100% branch-coverage baseline, prepares it for external audit, and hands over repositories, keys, and infrastructure at the end. If what you actually want is résumés to interview and seats to manage, a marketplace will serve you better — and we would rather tell you that on the first call.

How you get a team

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Scoping call

You talk to engineers, not sales. We map what needs to be built, challenge the parts that should not be, and agree on what success looks like.

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Team composition

A named team matched to the scope and the stack — with an architecture take attached, so you approve a plan, not a headcount.

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Delivery rhythm

Short iterations against a visible backlog, with testing and audit preparation running as part of development rather than after it.

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Audit and handover

External audit coordinated on our side, findings closed, then deployment with full authority handover and a warranty window.

Related pages

Hire by specialization

_FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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If your product lives on Ethereum or another EVM chain — contracts, DeFi mechanics, tokenization — start with the Solidity page. If it lives on Solana — Anchor programs, token economies, trading systems — start with the Rust & Solana page. If you are not sure which chain fits the product, book a call from this page and the architecture review will answer it.
A marketplace sells you interviews; this page sells you a system. The team arrives with its own architecture practice, testing baseline, and audit pipeline, and it is accountable for the delivery as a whole — not for hours logged. The trade-off is honest: if you want to manage seats directly, a marketplace is cheaper and faster for that.
After a scoping call and an architecture review — typically days to a few weeks, driven by scope rather than recruiting, because the bench already exists. Exact dates are agreed on the discovery call.
Protocol complexity, audit scope, how much existing infrastructure you reuse, and team composition over time. Engagements are quoted after an architecture review — treat any fixed price list for protocol work as a red flag, ours included.

_READY TO BUILD?

What da quack?

Tell us what you're building. We'll come back with a team composition and an architecture take — not a rate card.

See Our Work on GitHub